{"id":493,"date":"2010-06-14T22:44:25","date_gmt":"2010-06-15T05:44:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.realizedsound.net\/dac\/?p=493"},"modified":"2010-06-14T22:44:25","modified_gmt":"2010-06-15T05:44:25","slug":"day-110-u2-jimi-hendrix-experience-the-beach-boys-and-pulp-fiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.realizedsound.net\/dac\/archives\/493","title":{"rendered":"Day 110. U2, Jimi Hendrix Experience, The Beach Boys and ‘Pulp Fiction’."},"content":{"rendered":"

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Tonight I grabbed a stack of discs out of the car… \u2018The Beach Boys Classics selected by Brian Wilson\u2019, the \u2018Pulp Fiction\u2019 soundtrack, \u2018Electric Ladyland\u2019 by the Jimi Hendrix Experience and U2\u2019s \u2018Zooropa\u2019. Yep – sounds like some music I would drive with.<\/p>\n

\u2018Electric Ladyland\u2019 – one of the best albums ever? I think so. One of my favorite aspects of the album is the way production quality changes from song to song, yet the album also weaves a mostly continuous feel (side breaks aside of course). Going from \u2018Crosstown Traffic\u2019 to the live \u2018Voodoo Chile\u2019 is an amazing job in production. The sound of the drums in \u2018Gypsy Eyes\u2019 leading into the guitar and bass riff is stunning. The R&B sound of \u2018Have You Ever Been to Electric Ladyland\u2019 is a brilliant contrast to the opening \u2018And The God\u2019s Made Love\u2019 (which could have come out of the tape studios of Europe at the same time). And all this happens before disc two!<\/p>\n

Side three of the LP (\u2018Rainy Day\u2019 -> \u20181983\u2019 -> \u2018Moon Turn The Tides\u2019) might be my favorite album side in rock and roll. The feedback sections are are beautiful. And the whole shape of the side is perfect. From the ambient smoky room coughs in \u2018Rainy Day\u2019 into the trickling of sound of \u20181983\u2019 is a nice pulling together of a rock song – from sitting around in a room smoking with some friends into slick state of the art rock and roll. And then it dissolves again into a jam at first, then into sparks and flashes of sound. The side seems to create then destroy the rock song, and makes so much beautiful sound along the way. Then (if you are listening on LP), you turn over to side four and seem to start all over again with \u2018Still Raining, Still Dreaming\u2019. But from here on, it is blues and rock Jimi Hendrix Experience until the end. \u2018House Burning Down\u2019,\u00a0 \u2018All Along The Watchtower\u2019 and a second reprise for the album (the slight return of Voodoo Chile). This was the Experience\u2019s third and final album… Hendrix would put together the Band of Gypsies after this, and would be dead shortly after that.<\/p>\n

Technically, there are some amazing things done with this album. The exploration of what the tape machines in the studios could do is at the level of what John Lennon and Yoko Ono were doing with \u2018Revolution 9\u2019 on the \u2018White Album\u2019, but where most people couldn\u2019t bear to listen to that whole song, there is little in the experimenting on \u2018Electric Ladyland\u2019 that would turn people off. He plays around with sonic space, moving sound around your head in ways that most composers are still trying to do as effectively and meaningfully. And on top of that, the songs rock. They are bluesy. They are ambient. They run a VERY wide swath of musical style to create an album that is engaging for pretty much its entirety. For a double album this is pretty astonishing. And that this keeps up over repeated listenings is even more phenomenal.<\/p>\n

U2\u2019s \u2018Zooropa\u2019? No, it isn\u2019t \u2018Electric Ladyland\u2019, but it is a great album as well. I don\u2019t know what I can say after talking about \u2018Electric Ladyland\u2019 that wouldn\u2019t sound like I was being a downer about \u2018Zooropa\u2019, so I will just say one thing and leave it at that: \u2018The Wanderer\u2019 is a stroke of collaborative genius.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tonight I grabbed a stack of discs out of the car… \u2018The Beach Boys Classics selected by Brian Wilson\u2019, the \u2018Pulp Fiction\u2019 soundtrack, \u2018Electric Ladyland\u2019 by the Jimi Hendrix Experience and U2\u2019s \u2018Zooropa\u2019. Yep – sounds like some music I would drive with. \u2018Electric Ladyland\u2019 – one of the best albums ever? I think so. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[217,214,216,215,27],"class_list":["post-493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rock-pop","tag-greatest-rock-album-ever","tag-jimi-hendrix-experience","tag-pulp-fiction","tag-the-beach-boys","tag-u2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realizedsound.net\/dac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realizedsound.net\/dac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realizedsound.net\/dac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realizedsound.net\/dac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realizedsound.net\/dac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=493"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.realizedsound.net\/dac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":496,"href":"https:\/\/www.realizedsound.net\/dac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493\/revisions\/496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realizedsound.net\/dac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realizedsound.net\/dac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realizedsound.net\/dac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}